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The Social Structure of Open Source Development

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the house-of-cards-and-cigarettes dept.

HulkProtector1 writes "NewsForge has published an interview Tom Chance conducted with Andreas Brand, a sociologist who is studying the free software world. Read the full interview to learn more about Andreas' views on KDE's development model, volunteer recruitment and retention, motivation, work distribution and more. "

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  1. I don't get Congress. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    There's an important difference you're overlooking: Nobody's getting shut out of the DVD player business.

    Seriously, how many legal car repair shops do you think there are? A million is most likely a conservative figure. The car computer legislation is happening because there are a lot of people in the car repair business, and have been in the car repair business for generations. But, suddenly (last few years) they've been unable to fix cars because they don't know the secret codes for the cars' computers.

    This isn't "I want everything, like MP3s and DVDs, for free". This is "I want to fsck-ing survive here. ius